orders strikes turkey fires are syria again in response to a mortar attack as the turkish prime minister says it will go to war if provoked. return of the republic crowds rally for venetian independence frustrated with rome's crowds and calling for the thousand year state to make its comeback. hundreds demand an end to u.s. drone attacks in pakistan with the two day march into the heart of the strike zone .

it's four am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t our top story turkey's launched a fresh artillery strike on syria in response to another mortar attack from across the border on cora started its shelling wednesday in retaliation for a syrian mortar round that killed five turkish civilians our middle east correspondent paula sleeker has the details. we do know that the mortar bomb landed in the countryside in turkish that territory so it is possible that no one in fact was injured or killed we also have no word on who was responsible for this later mortar from syria what i can tell you though is that almost immediately turkey responded and went on the offensive meaning that we had the situation along the turkish syrian border intensifying its not a back on wednesday when a mortar bomb fired from syria killed five turkish citizens and since in the situation has nearly escalated we're hearing from the turkish prime minister that he does not want a situation of war but he has warned the syrians not to make

a fatal mistake and that is a quote from him and taste his resolve the syrians will decide has apologized for those what is interesting is that you need to realize that these waters that are being fired from syria into turkey all close range missiles now they are coming from terra true that is controlled by the syrian rebels so this is what many are suggesting that perhaps they are being fired on purpose they're being fired to provoke the situation and create a false flag operation now the reasoning behind this could be that turkey for some time has been calling for a no fly zone it might be provoked into calling for foreign intervention and for nato to get involved in fact we've heard some rebel leaders in exile call for this although the majority of excels in the majority of syrians are against this but the situation intensifying on the ground and everyone concerned that we could see this border tension into some kind of regional conflict a battle certainly is intensifying the latest there's

a video that has now been released by the syrian rebels we have no confirmation as to the or the patient of the video but in it it does claim that the rebels will start executing forty eight muslims on the run if damascus does not meet the demands of the syrian rebels now there has been dialogue and some kind of negotiations. wow between the syrian government and the reigning government at the same time just outside damascus the rebels have shut down a syrian heavy cop to govern the ship but this comes as shelling continues between both sides in several cities of onto the country russia has come to the fore in the mediate tree roll it has said that it hopes the united nations arab envoy to syria will be coming to moscow perhaps later this month and they too they hope that both sides will express caution must go also saying that these cross border incidents are completely unacceptable after turkey's parliament authorized troops to launch

cross border operations against syria the country's prime minister warned on cora won't shy away from more of provoked author and journalist optionor a ton see things damascus will retaliate if pulled into a bigger conflict. this kind of flashpoint is the kind of flashpoint that can create world war three. some people have it this is a false flag operation we're getting these reports of this continued as it would reaction for the jets government ok so a new one will face political problems at home but then why with a speaking with the iranians talking about how this needs a diplomatic solution not a military one if turkey continues down to the agreements made in violent this who julian wanted to situational why did vs your old war and risks expanding it be below syria and the people of turkey will not benefit from this major says that they'll defend any nato member if we continue like this syria might see itself getting increasingly desperate and retaliate with full force and then it's up to

the united states and britain european and nato allies just figure out what to do what we need urgently right now is a peace conference set me it's up to china and russia because they're the only people stopping a full scale war the kind of war that will only help the forces it looks like such as al qaida united states is again supporting al-qaeda and turkey who stood to one should know much better than to try and help out guy and he's been doing his best to fight the forces of hokkaido all through his presidency the republic of venice could be planning a glorious comeback supporters of the venetian independence from italy are demanding the region go it alone tired of being saddled with what they say is rome's austerity it's the latest in a number of european regions considering independence including scotland in the u.k. and catalonia in spain professor a lot of. separate is party who separatist party organized the rally believes

venice will fare better on its own. we're in a situation worse than a colony because there's a worse once they get x. rayed in italy it's the highest in the world and our services are. are extremely poor we have twenty billion a sin from modern regional resources each year and that some bearable and i d's thirty. a couple days ago there was a siege of st mark's belt powered by four workers and there's this situation here in van and so it's it's almost explosive sold so they had been thousands of people who have gathered in front of their regional government for sure in italy where in all day on the line there is a sicilian sort of the i have strong movements for it of course who are they and they've best organized but soon after i know it's going to happen there are regions severely. more stories features videos and analysis in store on the web right now

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a blood disease pro-reform crowds trying to reach their former pearl square in the capital managua now heavily guarded by police protesters threw firebombs on iraq says tear gas canisters were hurled at them by officers the sunni monarchy has been cracking down on the shia opposition for some twenty months now activists are calling for equal rights and the release of political prisoners including prominent human rights activists now be currently serving three years in prison for attending an illegal rally former bahraini and peace a. certain the state's only get involved when it benefits them. the problem and the devil is stunned which in practice by old student john trees. then they do consider him on those regimes who some. let's say a relationship with them probably they consider them as enemies but like it's a product of the system they have roots off relationship they give them some let's

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thanks for sticking with us here on r t sixty minutes past the hour now hundreds of peace activists joined a two day march in pakistan against u.s. drone strikes in the country the convoy that's traveling from islamabad to south waziristan is being led by cricket legend imraan khan who since become an opposition politician the region is a hotbed of taliban militancy and a major focus of the u.s. strikes political activist. thinks the rally is supported by the broader pakistani public. the lords grand jury go of that region has welcomed in india it would be only an assistance that is being provided by the government which does not want to open this up to exposure because for the past five years they've been hiding the fact that bones have been attacking this region on the on the public front actually

deny it but on privately behind the doors of the us government they actually accept the fact just a simple attack on a silver entity and unfortunately for the last five years our government has actually bought into the american war on terror at the american what has now become our war and they should be should catch on all of these terrorists that are doing it but unfortunately not able do not able to handle the economic affairs of the country let alone disturb the mission that has been before and our country tired but while the drone strikes in pakistan by the us is too much for many of its people the leaders of neighboring afghanistan say the u.s. isn't doing enough to root out terrorists hiding just across the border defense secretary leon panetta has called on the afghan president to thank american troops rather than criticize them in response to hamid karzai has complained that washington needs to pursue pakistani militants more aggressively and who are activists and journalists don de bar is critical of nato's role in the whole region

. the united states has a blind spot to the fact that people tend to have an affinity for their national sovereignty that doesn't disappear just because their country is occupied by the united states and you have this manifest in afghanistan to the point where it's now obvious that if you hand an afghan the comprador soldier a weapon and show them how to use it they turn it on the american soldier that handed it to them and the people of afghanistan want the united states out and it's a natural thing for that to occur and the united states just doesn't see that one of the goals of the us imperial project is to where they can't completely dominate a place leave the people at each other's throats while they carry off the resources and so there's agitation for that that's put into play as the united states enters these countries what will happen in two thousand and fourteen is the afghanis will

have an opportunity to settle their own national issues themselves without an occupying army directing the effort. campaign silence in venezuela ahead of the tightly contested presidential vote election will reveal how many remain loyal to the outspoken socialist leader who go to chavez his opponent enrique kept a young lawyer and staunch critic of the government is predicted to give him a run for his money at the polls or he's losing as more from caracas. there's no question who these venezuelans will be voting for comic tobar seventh. we are here because we support our president chavez he does many things to help us housing education programs helping the poor and nothing here has gotten a lot better because of him everything has changed. their red shirts brand them as the lifeblood of the venezuelan president's leftist movement through out his fourteen years in power for the hundreds of thousands of supporters who gathered in

caucus on thursday the message was clear they want six more years of hell comment on. his supporters say that chavez is the country's first president genuinely care about the lower class was chavez is the punishment of the rich and the window of hope to make. them meet under the banner of socialism for the twenty first century chavez has pumped hundreds of billions of petro dollars into the economy and government run aid programs along with earning him popular support poverty has fallen from fifty percent in one thousand nine hundred nine to around thirty percent last year yet life in this country is far from ideal and with the plague of unemployment climb and corruption many venezuelans are now saying it's time for shoppers to go to god it looks like i'm one of those who voted for chavez but he's time has passed and we need a change. in this race change means a vote for opposition leader and the penis a forty year old lawyer who unlike chavez enjoyed

a privileged upbringing. the son of a wealthy family that controls a media conglomerate and a chain of movie theaters this is going. supporters by promising to combat climate unemployment and corruption but opponents have charged the company this is deliberately hiding his real economic goals the candidates are. going to be kept busy demanding people come from this kind of poverty works to try to change that and the other cuban reading your feelings is a man of the wealthy the elite of oligarchy who would implement privatization only for. austerity if it's a choice between two radically different worldviews or referendum and venezuela's socialist experiment. into the shot. at the way of. the many. action the captain of artsy craftsy.

americans walsall had to the polls next month to decide whether to keep barack obama as their president or a not but while some critics say the us electoral system fails to give citizens a real choice many voters themselves seem to be growing bored of the ballot our own new york resident laurie harshness has more from the streets of new york. the two thousand and twelve presidential elections why are they so boring this week let's talk about that. so tired of all of it you know i mean it's almost like it's more than twenty four hours of coverage on everything you know no matter what happens and nothing happened exactly having said that i think obama's going to win do you think he believes in himself as much as he did four years ago because he seems kind of tired he seems like he's a little frustrated i think he's more tired of mitt romney and just all of this like he just wants to get it over to november and just like ok give me you know my polls and let me when president obama was in with the first african-american

president i was so exciting no it's boring me i don't know if there's going to be as much of a turnout for voters this year are you going to vote absolutely we're talking about the election you know. i'm not american you don't let me now yeah we don't we don't want a lot of americans vote too apparently why do you want to run don't you think either candidate can get it done i think there's too much corruption in the government and the bush kerry kerry yeah i was just like i like which one do i like the least ok i'll use the other a vote for the other one yeah yeah so it's kind of the same thing as two thousand and four that maybe i just like one of those here but i feel like they just wants to be to get it over with and they just want to hear more details and plans yeah and get it over with and get on with it and do something for it saying jack what could they do to snatch things up i'm not that smart. yet they're the smart ones

with all the millions of dollars do you think they get put on a better show right for you know whether or not you think this election is boring the bottom line is we only have about a month until it's finally over and we can all gladly move on. turning to some other world news headlines now israel is shot down and rolled over the country's southern desert it's unclear who launched the aircraft but suspicion fell on the lebanese militant group hezbollah israeli officials call the incident a potential act of terrorism and threaten to retaliate marks the first time in more than six years a hostile aircraft has entered israeli airspace. i. think. radical islam is suspected of a grenade attack on a jewish market was killed during one of several counterterrorism operations throughout france jeremy sidney's believed to have injured one person during an attack on the jewish community center last month during the raid police also

detained ten others allegedly connected to the wave of anti-semitic attacks that have hit france. for the first time since two thousand and ten a north korean soldier succeeded in defecting to south korea across the heavily armed land border soldiers shot dead two commanders before crossing into the d.m.z. he reportedly used a loudspeaker to let south korean border guards know his intention to defect after the killings. hope's former butler has been handed an eighteen month sentence after he stole then sold to a journalist the pontiff private letters paolo gabriele said he would not appeal the verdict he set to serve his sentence under house arrest but a powerful spokesman says pope benedict the sixteenth will most likely pardon his former aide the high profile leaked was exposed when an italian journalist published a book accusing using church leaders of numerous intrigues corruption and homo sexual affairs. minors in south africa gathered for

a rally against the dismissal of twelve thousand of their coworkers they were sacked after staging a strike demanding better pay and work conditions the protesters also mourning their colleagues killed by police in brutal clashes that started two months ago the death toll in the ongoing unrest so far at forty eight. up next he speaks with a member of the u.k. parliament who risked his career to expose the truth about his country's mission in afghanistan the interview coming up after the break. well. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style sun it's time to rise on.

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